Install Mandrake, skip Lilo setup, be sure to have Drak make a boot disk for
you, load Linux with the boot disk, download the new version of Lilo, edit
your /etc/lilo.conf file, install the new version of Lilo, run Lilo as
follows:
lilo -L -v
The -L switch enables the new Lilo's LMB function and takes care of the 1024
problem.
----- Original Message -----
From: Hugo GONZALEZ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, June 23, 2000 10:32 AM
Subject: [newbie] Partitioning for Win98 and Linux
> Hello everyone.
>
> I had installed Mandrake 7.0 as the single OS on my box. No problem at
all. Then my HD physically crashed and I installed a new one with Windows
98. This new hd is 20Gb big, and initially, when installing Win98 I left
only a partition of 10Gb (9.x Gb), the rest of the disk would be for Linux.
Then I tried to install Mandrake, but DrakX told me that the partition for
Linux is beyond the cylinder 1024, so I quit installation. I surfed the
internet to read some howtos, but my confusion grew larger. My question is:
can I install Linux without making a /boot partition within the cylinder
1024?
>
> Can I keep my hd like
>
>
!----------------Win98(10Gb)--------------!!--------------------Linux-------
-------------!
>
> or should I go to something like
>
>
!-/boot-!!-----------------Win98---------------!!-----------------Linux-----
-------------!
>
> Please, if you'd be so kind to clarify this to me.
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Hugo GONZALEZ
>
>
